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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966

People

Elizabeth II age 37
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 46
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 69
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Charles de Gaulle age 72
President - France
Nikita Khrushchev age 69
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 62
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 73
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 76
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 71
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 45
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 71
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 44
Shah - Iran
Walter Ulbricht age 70
First Secretary - East Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 33
King - Belgium
Heinrich Lübke age 69
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 64
Chairman - People's Republic of China
João Goulart age 44
President - Brazil
Abdul Salam Arif age 42
President - Iraq
Lê Duẩn age 56
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adolfo López Mateos age 53
President - Mexico
Osvaldo Dorticós age 44
President - Cuba
Amin al-Hafiz age 41
President - Syria
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 55
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 37
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 38
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
U Thant age 54
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 37
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 73
Prime Minister - India
Georges Pompidou age 52
Prime Minister - France
Zhou Enlai age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ludwig Erhard age 66
Chancellor - Germany
Alec Douglas-Home age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Leone age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Levi Eshkol age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
Hayato Ikeda age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
Avery Brundage age 76
President - International Olympic Committee
Walter Hallstein age 61
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 62
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 57
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Chen Cheng age 66
Premier - Republic of China
Dirk Stikker age 66
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Ali Sabri age 43
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
George David Woods age 62
President - World Bank
Kim Il-sung age 51
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Petar Stambolić age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Earl Warren age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Lyndon B. Johnson age 55
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 70
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 77
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 55
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Zhu De age 76
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 65
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Maxwell D. Taylor age 62
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 67
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 63
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Robert F. Kennedy age 37
Attorney General - United States
Robert McNamara age 47
Secretary of Defense - United States
Dean Rusk age 54
Secretary of State - United States
C. Douglas Dillon age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reginald Maudling age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 55
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Earle Wheeler age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 68
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Harold Macmillan age 69
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Harold Wilson age 47
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Nicholas Katzenbach age 41
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Byron White age 46
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 50
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 65
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 39
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 51
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 55
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Hubert Humphrey age 52
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 39
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 49
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 88
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Ford age 50
House of Representatives - United States
James Callaghan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Heath age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Rab Butler age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 79
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller age 55
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Pat Brown age 58
Governor of California - United States
Orval Faubus age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Carl Sanders age 38
Governor of Georgia - United States
Endicott Peabody age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Rhodes age 54
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albertis Harrison age 56
Governor of Virginia - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 69
Governor of Maryland - United States
Barber Conable age 41
New York State Senate - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 54
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 35
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 70
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 62
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 45
President - South Korea
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 57
President - Senegal
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 75
President - India
Ahmed Ben Bella age 46
President - Algeria
Hussein I of Jordan age 27
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 60
President - Tunisia
Urho Kekkonen age 63
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 81
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 34
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 68
President - Turkey
Olav V of Norway age 60
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 51
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 41
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 56
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 54
Queen - Netherlands
Frederik IX of Denmark age 64
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 81
King - Sweden
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 58
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 40
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 56
President - Haiti
Antonio Segni age 72
President - Italy
Makarios III age 50
President - Cyprus
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 39
President - Cameroon
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 58
President - Nigeria
Modibo Keïta age 48
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 53
President - Philippines
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 33
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 53
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 67
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 54
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 64
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 69
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 55
President - Venezuela
Fernando Belaúnde age 51
President - Peru
Léon M'ba age 61
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 73
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 51
President - Madagascar
Arturo Umberto Illia age 63
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 45
President - Chad
Diori Hamani age 47
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 56
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 67
President - Liberia
Adolf Schärf age 73
President - Austria
Jorge Alessandri age 67
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 38
President - Mauritania
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 53
Sultan - Oman
Isa II of Bahrain age 30
Emir - Bahrain
Muteesa II of Buganda age 38
President - Uganda
Ibrahim Abboud age 63
President - Sudan
Américo Tomás age 68
President - Portugal
Haxhi Lleshi age 50
President - Albania
Oswaldo López Arellano age 42
President - Honduras
Grégoire Kayibanda age 39
President - Rwanda
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 63
Queen - Tonga
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 42
President - Republic of the Congo
Guillermo León Valencia age 54
President - Colombia
Fouad Chehab age 61
President - Lebanon
Aleksander Zawadzki age 63
President - Poland
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 68
Emir - Kuwait
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 43
Emir - Qatar
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 56
President - Costa Rica
Willy Spühler age 61
President - Switzerland
René Schick age 53
President - Nicaragua
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 68
President - Mongolia
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 62
President - Uruguay
C. R. Swart age 68
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 40
Prime Minister - Singapore